Starburst Engineer

We are At Synechron, we believe in the power of digital to transform businesses for the better. Our global consulting firm combines creativity and innovative technology to deliver industry-leading digital solutions. Synechron’s progressive technologies and optimization strategies span end-to-end Artificial Intelligence, Consulting, Digital, Cloud & Dev Ops, Data, and Software Engineering, servicing an array of noteworthy financial services and technology firms.

Through research and development initiatives in our Fin Labs we develop solutions for modernization, from Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain to Data Science models, Digital Underwriting, mobile-first applications and more. Over the last 20+ years, our company has been honored with multiple employer awards, recognizing our commitment to our talented teams. With top clients to boast about, Synechron has a global workforce of 17,000+, and has 58 offices in 22 countries within key global markets.

Our challenge We are seeking an experienced Starburst Platform Engineer to support and expand Wells Fargo's enterprise Data Virtualization platform powered by Starburst on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). The successful candidate will be responsible for the end-to‑end deployment, administration, optimization, and support of the Starburst platform, enabling business users and engineering teams to access and analyze data across multiple on-premises and cloud data sources through a unified SQL layer.

This role requires deep expertise in Starburst Enterprise Platform (SEP), Trino, GCP services, Kubernetes/GKE, data access governance, and customer engagement. The engineer will act as a trusted advisor to data consumers, helping optimize SQL workloads, troubleshoot platform issues, and drive adoption of enterprise data virtualization capabilities.

The base salary for this position will vary based on geography and other factors. In accordance with law, the base salary for this role if filled within Charlotte, NC is $110k - $115k/year & benefits (see below).

• Platform Engineering & Deployment Design, deploy, configure, and maintain Starburst Enterprise Platform (SEP) in Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Manage Starburst clusters running on GKE, including coordinators, workers, autoscaling, upgrades, patching, and infrastructure optimization.
• Configure and support integrations with Big Query, Cloud SQL, GCS, Iceberg catalogs, Teradata, Oracle, SQL databases, and other enterprise data sources.
• Implement platform security, IAM integration, RBAC, authentication, authorization, and governance controls.
• Support production, non-production, disaster recovery, and business continuity environments.

• Analyze and optimize user SQL workloads for performance, scalability, and cost efficiency.
• Recommend best practices for federated queries, joins, partition pruning, caching, materialized views, and semantic layer usage.
• Troubleshoot long-running queries, memory issues, concurrency bottlenecks, and workload management challenges.
• Assist users in tuning analytical workloads and achieving optimal performance across distributed data sources.
• Provide guidance on Starburst SQL features, query execution behavior, and platform capabilities.

• Serve as the primary technical contact for Starburst platform consumers.
• Investigate and resolve production incidents, access issues, authentication failures, catalog connectivity problems, and data access concerns.
• Collaborate closely with business stakeholders, analysts, data scientists, data engineers, and application teams.
• Conduct onboarding sessions, knowledge transfer workshops, and platform enablement activities.
• Guide…